Vaulting-standard.



P. s. MEDART.

VAULTING STANDARD.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 19, 1914.

1,128,705. Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE. PHILIP s EDART, or s'r. LoUIs, MISSOURLASS1GNOR T rann MEDART MANUFAC- TURINGCOMPANY, on sat. LoUIs, MISSOURI, A ooRPoaATIoN OF MISSOURI.

VAUL'IING-STA NDARD.

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it known that I, PHILIP S. MnDAR'r, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain'new and useful Improvements in Vaulting- Standards, of which the following is a specifica tion.

This invention relates to the adjustable type of vaulting standards used in athletic exercises, and has for its object to provide a simple and efii'cient construction and combination of parts whereby the members of thestandard can be adjustedvertically in a. convenient and rapid manner, and automatically and securely locked at the required adjustment, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1, is a front elevation of a vaulting standard having the present invention applied. Fig. 2, is a side elevation of the same.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in both views.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the supporting base, preferably of the dish shape shown, and having a centrally disposed vertical socket member'or hub 2 for the attachment of the main tubular member or column of the appliance.

3 designates the lower tubular member or columns above referred to preferably of a .round form in cross-section, and fixedly secured in the socket member or hub 2, aforesaid.

4. designates a bracket member secured to the upper end of the tubular member or column 3, aforesaid, and having journal 1 bearing for a crank shaft 5 carrying a gagement with the aforesaid sprocket pinion Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

Application filed. May is, 1914. Serial in. 839,533.

" 6,so that the member or post 8 will receive positive vertical adjustment therefrom.

10 designates a gravity dog or pawl pivoted on the bracket member 4, adapted to engage with the teeth of the sprocket pinion 6, to maintain the upper member or post 8 of the appliance at the required vertical adjustment. l

11 designates a horizontal bracket pin or other like extension, attached to the upper end of the member or post 8, and adapted to provide a gage, or be the means for supporting an ordinary horizontal bar to act as a gage, in pole vaulting, high kicking and like exercises.

' 12 designates a sleeve slidingly mounted on the lower tubular member or column 3, and provided with lateral bracket ears in which are j ournaled the shaft of a sprocket pinion 13 which has operative engagement tive members 3and 8 to indicate the heights at which the respective gage pins 11 and 16, are placed.

Having thus fully described my said invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 2-- In a vaulting standard, thecombination of upper and lower vertical members slidingly connected together, a bracket member carried on the upper end of the lower member, a shaft journaled in said bracket and carrying a sprocket pinion and an operating crank, the upper member being formed with a vertical series of sprocket orifices for operative engagement with the aforesaid sprocket pinion, and a gravity pawl carried by said bracket and adapted for locking engagement with the aforesaid sprocket pinion, a, sleeve slidin'gly mount-= lockingengagement with said sprocket pined on; 1the' aforesaid lower member and. -ion', substantially asset forth. f 10 provided withllateral' brackets, a 'sprocket- Signed at St.- Louis, Missouri, this'15th I pinionjournaledins'saidbraokets said lower dayof May,1914. I 5memberxb'eingr,forrhedlWith ae' x'zerti czil,seriejsw 7 PHILIP :S.'MEDART. [of sprocket orifices for operative engagement} vWitnesses thsse z pr cketip nionwa d a-g vity- I C-M ER, .w j pawl cen iedbysaidsleeve agd adaptedfor, o F. J l lemm gm} Copies .o f this patent may be obtained for five ,eents; each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents j t e Washington .D.C. I v 

